Tag: retirement

Woman looking at mountains

A dramatic decline in widow’s poverty over a quarter century has been a positive outcome of more women going to college and moving into the labor force. Yet 15 percent of widows are still poor – three times the poverty rate for married women. A new study by the Center for Retirement Research takes a…

Boston or Florida?

My husband is newly retired, and we’ve spent hours talking about where we might want to live after I retire in a few years. Our imagined scenarios are always changing. But I’m clear on one thing: I do not want to buy a house in Naples, Florida, where a couple we know did recently. No offens…